What's in this directory?

These are files containing the installer and other software
for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.
The files in this directory are specifically for
the mips64el architecture.

How do I use these files?

The files here are complete ISO images, ready to use.

Once you have downloaded all the ISO images you want, you will
typically need to write them to installation media.

What size and type of media will I need?

The images described here are sized to be written to
writeable DVD media
at a minimum, but may be written to larger media if needed.

There are lots of files here! Do I need all of them?

In most cases it is not necessary to download and
use all of these images to be able to install
Debian on your computer. Debian comes with a massive set of
software packages, hence why it takes so many disks for a
complete set. Most typical users only need a small subset of
those software packages.

Initially, you will only need to download and use
the first image of a set (labelled as
debian-something-1 to be able to start the
Debian installer and set up Debian on your computer. If there are
more images available here
(labelled debian-something-2,
debian-something-3, etc.), they contain the
extra packages that can be installed on a Debian system (as
mentioned previously). They will not be
bootable and are entirely optional. If you have a fast Internet
connection, you're most likely better off installing any
desired extra packages directly from the Debian mirrors on the
Internet instead of by using these extra images.

How can I verify my download is correct and exactly what has
been created by Debian?

There are files here (SHA1SUMS, SHA256SUMS, etc.) which contain
checksums of the images. These checksum files are also signed - see
SHA1SUMS.sign, SHA256SUMS.sign, etc. Once you've downloaded an image,
you can check:

Only the first few images are available! Where are the rest?

We don't store/serve the full set of ISO images for all
architectures, to reduce the amount of space taken up on the
mirrors. You can
use the jigdo
tool to recreate the missing ISO images instead.

Other questions?

See the Debian CD FAQ
for lots more information about Debian CDs and installation.

The images here were put together by
the Debian CD team
, using debian-cd and other software.

Why the 9.2.1 update?

After the 9.2.0 release was made and published, a bug was found
with the sorting of packages in the full DVD, BD and DLBD sets. Due to
a glitch on release day, popularity contest data was not available and
this caused packages to be sorted incorrectly.

This may seem like a comparatively minor issue, but it
broke an important feature for some users. After the core set of
packages needed for the installer, desktops, etc. are placed onto the
first disc in a given set, we normally organise packages in order of
decreasing popularity such that most users will typically never need
to use more than the first 2 or 3 DVDs (for example). This bug broke
that feature, meaning that even quite popular packages could have
ended up on DVD#14 due to random sorting.

The 9.2.1 build fixes this bug. The build scripts have also been
updated to ensure this bug cannot happen again in future - the build
will abort if there is a problem updating popcon data.

If you have already installed using 9.2.0, you are unlikely to be
affected by this bug. Live images and netinst images are totally
unaffected. Apologies for any problems caused for users.